Parrots Quotes

• I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying.

  Derren Brown

  Thinking, Voice, Interesting

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• Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish

  Chevy Chase

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Needs, Firsts, Repetition

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• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  Aesop

  Being Yourself, Bird, Fables

  "The Jay and the Peacock". A fable by Aesop,

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• When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

  Winston Churchill

  Life And Love, Humorous, Eagles

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• I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Hope, Bird

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2435, Delphi Classics

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• Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

  Karl Pilkington

  Pirate, Gone, Quiet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  Norman Vincent Peale, Marjorie Holmes, Arthur Gordon, Will Rogers (1995). “To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts”, Dimensions for Living

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• If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Science, Technology

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, House, Crap

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• Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Men, Creative

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• My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

  Rumi

  Heart, Soul, Crow

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• Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Profession, Cant

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• Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Demand, Teach, Term

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• I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

  Marie Corelli

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

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• I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Friendship

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• She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Refined

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• People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  People, Monkeys, Too Much

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.124, Penguin

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• Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

  Voltaire

  Dog, Monkeys, Candide

  Voltaire (2006). “Candide: Or Optimism”, p.69, Yale University Press

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• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Looks, Cages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Animal, Practice

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• Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.

  Milan Kundera

  Song, Baby, Sleep

  "Fictional character: Tomas". "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", www.imdb.com. February 5, 1988.

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• God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.

  Billy Sunday

  People, Littles, Monkeys

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